Day Quote by Joe Mantello

So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow, you really…

— Colin Donnell

'Wicked' has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history, and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced the musical…

— Marc Platt

Is it perfect? Absolutely not! But there was an audience for 'Wicked,' and our producers were smart enough to reach that audience.

— Joe Mantello

If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting…

— John Logan

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience. That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of…

— Vincente Minnelli

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's…

— Shirley Jones

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing…

— Colin Meloy

“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?”

— Lawrence W. Levine

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

— Madeline Kahn

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

— Julie Andrews

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe...

— Ezra Koenig